Lead Software Engineer - Java, Microservices & Cloud

Job Description

Scope

• Core responsibilities to include Architecting and designing (along with counterparts and distinguished Architects) a ground up cloud native (we use Azure) SaaS product in Transportation management and micro- fulfillment.
• The team currently comprises of 60+ global associates across US, India (COE) and UK and is expected to grow rapidly. The incumbent will need to have leadership qualities to also mentor junior and mid-level software associates in our team
  
  

• Software: Java, Springboot, ReactJs, NodeJS, Gradle, GIT, Hibernate, Rest API, OAuth
• Application Architecture: Scalable, Resilient, event driven, secure multi-tenant Microservices architecture
• Cloud Architecture: MS Azure (ARM templates, AKS, HD insight, Application gateway, Virtue Networks, Event Hub, Azure AD)
• Frameworks/Others: Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Ignite, Apache Spark, NOSQL, RDBMS, Jenkins, App Dynamics, Splunk
  
  

• Drive designs discussion and come up with robust and more efficient designs to achieve features in product roadmap.
• Designs services to be self-healing and to offer self-service capabilities from the ground up to achieve minimum manual intervention.
• Seeks out the root causes of incidents and inspires improvements in a blameless fashion.
• Strives for smooth migration paths, in particular for breaking changes.
• Diligently collaborates with stakeholders to optimize service selection and usage to minimize costs for derived products.
• Take complete responsibility of the features developed right from coding till deployments.
• Be a Leader, take responsibility of code quality and drive test driven development thought process in the team.
• Collaborate and work along with experts in the team to understand the current architecture and propose opportunities for improvement.
• Introduce new technology and tools for the betterment of the product.
• Mentor New and junior associates in our team by shares knowledge by offering training sessions.
• Guides fellow engineers to look beyond the surface and fix the root causes rather than symptoms.
• Evolves the hiring culture in the team, identifies skill gaps, and actively shapes job openings to ensure foreseeable requirements can be met in the future.
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree (B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech Computer science or related specialization) and minimum 7 to 10 years of experience in Software development;
• Strong programming experience and background in Enterprise Java.
• Hands-on development skills along with architecture/design experience; should not have moved away from software development.
• Demonstrable experience with microservices based architecture on Cloud
• Demonstrable experience designing, building deploying and maintenance of enterprise cloud solutions (we use Azure) in AWS, Azure and or GCP.
• Experience with implementation of Event driven architecture using Kafka, Spark or similar technologies.
• Demonstrable experience, thorough knowledge and interests in Cloud native architecture, Distributed micro-services, Multi-tenant SaaS solution and Cloud Scalability, performance and High availability.
• Experience with API management platforms & providing / consuming RESTful APIs.
• Experience with varied tools such as Spring Boot, OAuth, REST, GraphQL, Hibernate, NoSQL, RDBMS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, React.
• Experience with DevOps, Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation.